Friday, December 31, 2010

New Year, new music…expect a Self Scientific EP later this year, but for now, we hope that you enjoy this.

We feel as though the injustice that was displayed with the Oscar Grant trial, is another example of brutality, handed out by the so-called law in America. Even in today’s seemingly relaxed social environment, where a Blackman is the literal face of the nation, we are forced to deal with blatant abuse of power, by local and federal “authorities”. We have been desensitized, and have come to a point where we expect the injustice to continue, yet collectively, we do nothing. We are ALL guilty. . .guilty of allowing our brothers and sisters to be continually treated like something less than human. The current generation spends countless hours online, typing useless banter about people’s personal lives, and listening to music that barely addresses the issues that effect us. If we ain’t gon tear this muthafucka up, we at least have to say something. . .”He Says Tazer , We Say Murder”. . . FUCK THE POLICE.

A pretty kool way to fuck tha police!
I always love what Chace Infinite and DJ Khalil are up to.

As 2010 ends, The Money Making Jam Boy co-captain gives you a Holiday present. His brief mixtape, entitled "QuickTape" is in direct response to listeners who've waited in anticipation for Truck's "I Told You So" mixtape and the Money Making Jam Boys mixtape respectively. Here we find Northside going in on some of his favorite joints to bring in the New Year correctly. The tape features Curt@!ns, Guilty Simpson, and fellow Jam Boy, P.O.R.N.

I was listening to the 1982 song over at DTI and was immediately hooked to this cat. I really believe he could be have been a part of the great Kreators from Boston and also Ghostface`s brother from another mother. So basically it can not get any better.
No I understand he is dropping the mixtape next week and his album early 2011.
Freshness.
Guten Rutsch to 77e.

New Tune by Teeko featuring Dibiase and Devonwho. Teeko's album "Light Up The Darkness" will drop 2011. Check more Teeko music via Teekomusic.com. Another fresh tune by Teeko and Dibiase is "Musical Light" you can digg at nice blog Moovmnt.

Producer Arkiv (check the Sound Soulstice project)from Australia sent me his latest Song with Saki & Just Jay on the mic. Real BoomBap-Ish for the real heads in the field. Beat is bumping while Jay and Saki rapping fresh.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Hey, this is J.Nolan. I hope Christmas was very pleasant for you this year. I'm just reaching out very quickly to send you my new song called "Get Out The Game" (produced by Frontier). It's from my upcoming mixtape entitled The Loose Files. I don't have a set date for its release as of yet, I'll be dropping a few tracks periodically to see how people feel about my new material first. I hope you like what you hear and consider posting it up on your site. Thank you for your time, much respect.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Malkovich cotinues his Ayatollah Presley upload session. Latest tune "The Gift" is produced by Bei Ru. The complete project will drop next month with LA*s finest on the guestlist. BTW, check the Bei Ru stuff we introduced to you some weeks ago, nice Crate Digger with a special sample taste for his boombappy beats. yarpprattatat

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Stalley gives us a second leak of his latest project entirely produced by Rashad Thomas. This beat is futuristic and makes me want to hear some more. Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music) is coming on the 11th of january.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Spacekid aka Beat-Maker-Beat has a massive output people, here is the latest installment "Paramind", full of spheric beats, produced with fine-tuning and engaged to get you in a freefall in sounds. Dude is an Audio-didact and it seems like he can drop an album every week. The Weapons: Akai mpc3000/Korg MS2000B,Triton,Moog L.P.,kaossilator1,kaoss-pad1 and more...

Merry Christmas from First Word Records! To celebrate the festive period we're giving away this fantastic 13 track compilation featuring new and exclusive material from across the label.

Label regulars kidkanevil, Homecut, Andy H, Souleance, Herma Puma and Ariya are joined by newcomers Lotek, East Park Reggae Collective, Amenta, Narow P, Red and Jack & Juke, with a few cheeky remixes and bootlegs thrown in for good measure.

So, grab a mug of mulled wine, a steaming hot mince pie and sit back and enjoy. Thank you for a fantastic 2010, see you all in 2011!

Haha, this goes out to the homie jones, who introduced so much good music to me, if Afro Jazz or Exotic Funk, this Dude contaminated me. Thanks Herma Puma for peeping me that.

Based on groove fundamentals such as 80's and 90's R&B, Minneapolis funk and early electro, this compilation holds 18 modern approaches to what we like to call boogie music.Combining neon synths and soul chords with a decent portion of future funk, we're invited to ride an exciting new wave of artists combining latest production techniques with classic grooves deeply rooted in 80's boogie wonderland.

Tokyo Dawn did it again. On January 21st they will release this fantsatic Sampler, featuring funky artists, serving the dance attitude to your living room. Miama Bass, Modern Funk, Disco Woofs, Future Beats and great voices. A Revenge of the 80's. Some weeks ago we featured incredible lady "Eagle Nebula" on the blog and it makes me happy to see her on the comp too. Stay tuned until 21.st january and play the stream above to shorten your waiting time.

Critically acclaimed mc/producer and Soul Position frontman Blueprint, returns with his highly anticipated sophomore solo release Adventures in Counter-Culture. Experimenting with synths, keyboards, and drum machines, Adventures in Counter-Culture touches on Blueprint’s cynicism with the world, his disdain for pop culture, the state of politics and an apathetic, uninspired society. The album encompasses every facet of music Blueprint knows. It blurs genre lines and connects his hip hop pedigree with his early days in the church choir, to the R&B bands he was a part of in high school, to his new found interest in rock and electronic music. After a five year musical journey, Blueprint has emerged with his greatest effort to date. A culmination of self discovery and societal critique, Adventures in Counter-Culture is just that. The adventure begins March 1st, 2011.

Yet another two dope leaks of this incredible album which I had the chance to listen to, because it has leaked already. Official release date is Dec. 21st so buy this and make yourself a great christmas present.
Tony Starks does it again.
Via 2dbz.

Friday, December 17, 2010

We continue our Digital / 7‐inch series with Olde Soul and Double K (People Under the Stairs), as they take listeners on a journey set to well‐crafted, sample‐based beats.

The mission begins with producer Olde Soul, setting the pace with “Taking Me Places,” a tale about weaving through L.A. nights. Mc, Blak King narrates the tale over hard drums and vintage filtered bass, steered by vibes. Olde soul's side of the journey ends with the headnotic “Along the Way.”

Los Angeles legend Double K detours with the melodic, funk tinged “Face to Face.” An extra treat concludes this project in the form of a “Bonus Beat" straight from the floppy disc stack.

Dimlite:«Three sweet songs as a present.. Few years ago we were up to record a whole album or at least an EP together. Then… a pletora of hindrances came along and the folder named ‘Elan + Dim’ remained untouched ever since. These songs are from 2007 / 08, they are and will forever be in demo state. But instead of trashing them…: it’s the season, and you might enjoy them.»

3 demo songs by Dimlite featuring Elan Tamara on the vocals. Dimlite's prodcution is confident as usual, Elan's vocals flows into the arrangement like a bird in the downwind.

Roc Marc with the remix for one of his best songs. Sean Price loves it. We love it.
This is more the kind of christmas mood i was hoping for. Snow outside.
If you didn`t catch the other Roc Marciano song that dropped a month ago check it here.

Paul White has been back in the studio and needed no coaxing to produce what might be the finest Christmas beat to drop this year. Rumours of Bullion’s vocoder version of ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman’ remain unfounded. Enjoy!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

The c60 music player from IDEO’s Boston office. The team brought to life a concept from Martin Bone and Kara Johnson’s book, I Miss My Pencil, that brings physicality back to the experience of listening to music.

I dont know how to circumvent with this informations, but is this the future? I cant imagine to listen to music that way, we still diggin vynil*s and love the process behind, the sound the flaws and the way how to get *em. I dont want to score ideas like the c60 Redux music player, but it is still out of my imagination. At least the technical development in 2010 is impressive and i hope we will have Beam-Machines in some years.

Label Love is an eclectic yet unified bundle of unique sounds compiled simply for the love of sharing them with the universe - each track plucked and presented by label heads from Melting Pot, Ninja Tune, One-Handed , Plug Research, Tru Thoughts and Ubiquity. Each label evokes its own signature swagger giving this collection a diversified and interesting flow of genres. Label Love consists of nostalgic classics, fresh unreleased gems and other dope, exclusive selections with the goal of expanding minds to new styles, vibrations and colors.

Nice one right here. Producer Mr. Brady has a real good album out called Labor Of Love with tons of interesting features on very good beats. To be honest in the record store days I would have never picked this one up due to the fact that is has such an ugly ass cover. Check out the album here.
I remembered TE had some old Diamond D pictures on their site so this is the perfect time to share them. Shouts to DGI.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The eclectically talented Georgia Anne Muldrow released her latest project, VWETO – the album title means "gravity" in Swahili – exclusively on iTunes today with the worldwide release, both physical and digital, to follow on January 25, 2011. The album is a tour-de-force when it comes to musical exploration taking on influences from "fOnkrock" and HipHop and runs the gambit all the way down to Piano Space. Innovative and avant-garde, Muldrow's new album is a breath of fresh air as the songstress and producer continues to push musical boundaries.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

This is fashionably late. Like half a year late and almost 3 million plays later. So I guess you all know it, huh? Wiz Khalifa is an artist I like, but I hate most the songs!? There is always something that throws me off... sometimes the beat, sometimes the hook....but there was one song that I just couldn`t stop listening to.
And now I find this video by accident and it was the only other song that stayed on my drive after downloading this.
What does a song like this do? It makes me roll one up and make a beat.
See ya.

Pretty nice track and video in our inbox. I sometimes think we had enough soul samples in hiphop over the years. Well listening to this, you think it`s never going to be enough, right? Produced by James Moore.
Grown man rap.

'Straight Out The MPC' is a collection of 30 beats produced by Jaisu between 2007 - 2010.

During this time Jaisu's series of beat tape videos at www.youtube.com/ab0181 accumulated 270,000 views. Commentators' demand for a download has reached breaking point and now here it is; start the helicoptas!

Finally its here, the Jaisu "Straight Out The MPC" Beat Tape, after a bunch of youtube videos and the preiview some days ago. Dude serves dope, soulful sample-based beats straight outta MPC. If you like what you hear, purchase the album for 5 pounds via bandcamp.

If you don`t know about Natural Elements go and look em up. Sometimes I wish I would have been at that age living in New York City at the time when they were on Rawkus.
Well, my memories from that time are seeing Ono and Savas on stage in Berlin... they used to call themselves Basic Elements. Good times.
Via GG.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Frenk & Stine is back with the release of the third EP of the "Awaken Frenk & Stine" series. We took a slightly more ominous direction with this one, but as always we made sure the beats knocked. These projects have consistently represented a pursuit in being honest with our craft and expression, while exploring new possibilities and getting out of our comfort zone as musicians. This latest EP was recorded over a three week period immediately following the release of EP 2/3.

This is the latest and final Part of the Frenk & Stine Awaken Beat EP Series. Shoutout to Solo & Jimmy who posted the other parts before.
Checkout: Frenk & Stine Promo Video | Bandcamp

I don`t know why we missed this when this came out ten days ago... uh, I know we were busy as hell, but the good guys over at PHIMB always keep a hiphop nerd updated.
These 5 songs come in form of a 20 track EP. Yeah that`s right, they provide you with the dirty and clean versions, accapellas and instrumentals... for free. So get busy and remix or rap to this.
Next thing you know they have pdf files with the lyrics so you can rhyme along and the cover comes in form of colouring booklet to keep your kids busy while you rap along listening to the clean version (of course).
By the way this is as dope as you thought it would be.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

“As many of you know my intention was to release a track for you on my birthday. Somewhere between the files being sent to get mixed and mastered and sent back to me the entire project was leaked. I don’t know how the files were obtained but at this point there isn’t anything I can do to control the spread of the project so please enjoy it in it’s entirety.”

This is nice. Dangermouse kicking of his whole career by dropping the grey album comes to my mind, but at first I was thinking some unknown producer picked a couple of Evidence accapellas to go along with some old Beatles records he found in his uncles closet. These fan projects are usually terrible to listen to. Thank god it`s Ev himself.
By the way, play this to your elders and watch their faces go: uuhhgh.
Hard knockin ish with features by Oh No, Rakaa and Fashawn.

Friday, December 10, 2010

But just before Chakra Sounds brings you a limited edition, 250 screen printed, hand numbered 7inch at the end of January early February.
You get a freebie from Mr Phonics
Everyone loves a freebie and Jon loves everyone (well nearly) so it equals 2 mp3’s of stank funk and a video just for you to download.
This is another limb from the Jon Phonics frankenstien body of sound following on from crafting some of the best soundscapes for hip-hop emcees in UK and US.

Uh whee! This is indeed funky. Dance the snow away... ladies? Say whuut?
Jon Phonics was featured on our last Beat Tape and will hopefully (Inshallah) be on Vol.2 aswell. Right, Jon?

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Kabus Kerim makes me happy with his fantastic Mixtapes. Check this one with massive turkish music of several genres, PsychFunk, Disco or Traditional. Dude is a great Crate Digger and i have to advice this mix to you, more to find on his soundcloud account. şahane !!! By the way, some people may know him from the legendary Cartel group.

This is a free EP, consisting of several instrumentals from previously released songs produced by Jaisu, and two recently released songs.Please feel free to share, blog and tweet about this EP - we are thankful for your support.Jaisu's 'Straight Out The MPC' project will be released, here on www.jaisu.bandcamp.com, on December 14th 2010. If you are new to his music please visit www.youtube.com/ab0181 to hear more in the meantime and follow www.twitter.com/Jaisu for further information.

I know some Dudes waiting for the first Audio Beat Tape release of Jaisu, like our homie Ekrem (77e). This is the prelude for the Album "Straight Out The MPC" dropping 14.dec. Download the EP via Bandcamp and make sure to cop the official release in 5 days..

This is the 8th installment in the 3P Series presented by producer J. Bizness and is hosted by OkayPlayer blogsite, Rappers I Know. This month features the creative collective that J. Bizness is associated with. This 3P highlights 5 emerging MCs from S. California (Richard Wright, Belvi, Skeem Price, Mr. Sobers, and Craze) as well as 2 other up & coming producers (Bombay and Captain).

J.Bizness brings that grown man music feeling along. Calm and collected, not trying to push any buttons to get your attention. We like that. This is why he was featured on our last R.O.L. Beat Compilation, but you already know that...
Yeah.

EL-P dropped one of the most impressive instrumental albums in 2010, his Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3. Me and homie Jimmy played it in rotation and are now happy to get this joint, "Lab Rat Bravely Escapes on Hovercraft Only to Crash Directly Outside of Gates" it is an instrumental piece that didnt make it on the album and which is now available for free download. Thanks EL-P and cop his latest track "Contagious" with "Wilder Zoby".

From the minds of The Two. Fifteens and the direction of Ryan Paterson "Katana Or Tanto" takes the viewer on a vigorous martial arts journey. This is the first video off of The Two. Fifteens recently released "..." EP. The “Katana Or Tonto” video was inspired by rare kung-fu films, various psychedelic visuals and post-modern collage art.

After a brief pause in the Medicine Show series, Madlib returns with a 28-track, full-length hip-hop album of collaborations with AG, Guilty Simpson, MED, Oh No, Strong Arm Steady and others. Karriem Riggins pops in for a short Supreme Team session, Madlib & Oh No debut their group The Professionals, and we hear for the first time a Jaylib-era track from Madlib & Dilla's never-realized second album.

The unofficial title of this album is Dirty Demos selected by the Loop Digga, a reference to a fire which destroyed some of this album's master tapes - a story detailed in the CD's 12-page booklet. The CD cover is by Isabel Samaras, LP illustrations by Gustavo Eandi, and design by Jeff Jank.